Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Bose X vs Zulu

I now have 4 nice headsets. 2 Zulu's, 1 Bose X and the QT Halo. By "nice" I mean a good quality headset with ANR or equivalent. I have also have a David Clark H20-10 which is nice, but not ANR and it's basically on 5th headset duty. Behind that I have a few cheapo sets including the crappy kids ones I bought and also my first ever headset, an old Flightcom. My wife hates the David Clark and the kids love the Zulu's, so for family trips I needed one more good headset. I bought a Bose X from a guy who upgraded to the new Bose A20 and paid $425 for it, shipped. This weekend I had a chance to do a direct comparison on the Zulu to the Bose, and I must say for my head the Zulu wins hands down. The primary reason is that the ear cups are smaller on the Bose, and so the Bose squeezes a little bit of my big ears. My whole ear fits in the Zulu cup. If you have small ears, it's a bit more of a wash I'd say... they have about equal noise cancellation. So in order of preference I'd say Zulu, QT Halo, Bose X. Value for money goes to the Halo.